Take Flight

Our mission statement at Take Flight is:

To provide our customers with the highest quality athletic apparel for training and casual wear, while providing them the inspiration to discover their own potential through movement.

The first half of this mission lies in our Parkour clothing and gear; hence primarily in our design, manufacturing, and distribution capabilities. But in order to achieve the second half of this mission we have found very few things more fitting than publishing inspirational quotes for our customers, fans, and followers to be inspired and encouraged by.

Featured here is a second round of inspirational quotes which we have featured on our Take Flight Fan Page, MySpace page, and Twitter feed over the past 6 months. Quotes below include those by Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Lance Armstrong, Martin Luther King Jt., Vince Lombardi, Bruce Lee, William Arthur Ward, George Patton, Confucius, Ralph Waldo Emerson and of course David Belle. To see the first selective compilation of quotes on our blog please click here.

“I’ve learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” -Andy Rooney

“All things are difficult before they are easy.” -Thomas Fuller

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” -Mark Twain

“Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.” -Mike Ditka

“Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring…. If you are willing, great things are possible for you.” -Grenville Kleiser

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” -Mark Twain

“…you don’t need any [money] to do [Parkour], just a pair of good shoes and that’s all.” -David Belle

“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” -Albert Einstein

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If you do not hope you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” -St. Clement of Alexandra

“A lot of people in their mind think ‘If there is a problem this is what I would do, this is how I would do it.’ But the truth is they don’t really know. Parkour teaches you to be sure of what you are able to do.” -David Belle

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” -Lance Armstrong

“Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!” -Anthony Robbins

“It’s easy to have faith and discipline when you’re a winner… what you need is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.” -Vince Lombardi

“We seek not to imitate the masters, rather we seek what they sought.” -Stephen Covey

“Many people open their mind through different things like music and painting, as well as Parkour. How is not important. What is important is to open your mind because you gain some freedom through it.” -David Belle

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” -George S. Patton

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’ ” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t wish it was easier. Enjoy the challenge and strive to become better.” -Take Flight

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Confucius

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” -Mark Twain

“With confidence you have won before you have started.” -Marcus Garvey

“Great men’s success should always be measured against the means they used to reach it.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” -Arthur C. Clarke

“Effective people are not problem minded, they are opportunity minded.” -Peter Drucker

“Knowing is now enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” -Bruce Lee

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.” -William Arthur Ward

“There is no stronger or weaker…. You’re strong in the moment when you go right to the end for the cause you are defending.” -David Belle